In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

And the biggest of them all is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you picked up each piece of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you'd carry away about 1.8 trillion individual pieces.

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, is becoming an ever more serious environmental problem. Studies carried out by The Ocean Cleanup organisation ...